[dpdk-dev] Pushing feature patches to DPDK stable release

[Kumar, Ravi1]

[AMD Public Use]

Hi Traynor,

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. It clears all our doubts. 

Regards,
Ravi

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> 
>Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 4:49 PM
>To: Kumar, Ravi1 <Ravi1.Kumar at amd.com>; dev at dpdk.org
>Cc: Giriyapura, Maheshwaramurthy <Maheshwaramurthy.Giriyapura at amd.com>; Somalapuram, Amaranath <Amaranath.Somalapuram at amd.com>; Jayakumar, Tamil-Velan <Tamil-Velan.Jayakumar at amd.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
>Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Pushing feature patches to DPDK stable release
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>On 28/02/2020 10:46, Kumar, Ravi1 wrote:
>> [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]
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>> Hi,
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>Hi Ravi,
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>Please remove the banner above, it is not appropriate for an open source mailing list.

My apologies. The banner is a new automatic update in the Outlook and I missed it. 

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>> I want to understand details on DPDK mainline process.
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>> Is it possible to upstream patches to the older stable branches, upstreaming to 18.11 as an example? How do we do it?
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>There is information about the stable releases and what is backported
>here: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Fcontributing%2Fstable.html&data=02%7C01%7Cravi1.kumar%40amd.com%7C42a97cd3ed4943fa042908d7bc3ffa04%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637184855288300009&sdata=IV3Z7bMKpRR24GEphhYMrUBtNUJUpBA9kUolQeELMS4%3D&reserved=0
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>(I have an outstanding todo to expand these docs a bit)
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>fyi - Luca and I did a presentation in September about DPDK LTS where we touched on this also: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F6ipOgMhkpU4&data=02%7C01%7Cravi1.kumar%40amd.com%7C42a97cd3ed4943fa042908d7bc3ffa04%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637184855288300009&sdata=lesi83xytT78AyJ4ONUS7zLn5lTZ0gWioPvYQYFgr1Q%3D&reserved=0
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>thanks,
>Kevin.
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>> Regards,
>> Ravi
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